Back to work!!!

Ok, I had to step back into the treadmill ( work) this morning, after being off for 4 days for Easter! Ohh! it was a shock to wake up at 7 am–  ekkkkkk!!!  I felt Crabbit, as Wendy says from a wee bit of cooking! It wasn’t too bad once I got there and woke myself up a bit, in-fact by the time this afternoon came I felt quite good about myself that I had actually done something productive!!

Now I am back into work mode I am going to focus on  my to do list, so far this year, we have:

1)  had a new bathroom fitted thanks to our plumber Chris (but not managed to fit wall panels yet, so not quite finished) 

2) had a new black shiny worktop fitted in kitchen, thanks  to Markie Mark x

But my list is still really long and I need to get organised and arrange the following:

1) buy wall panels for bathroom and get Markie Mark to fit them, hopefully next week

2) get a quote to have my hall and landing decorated, nothing flash just emulsioned and glossed

3) have a breakfast bar built with matching shiny worktop, markie will also do this

4) sort office out and buy a new desk that will fit in small gap

5) buy new oven with ceramic hob, ( already priced this £329  in Comet for silver Neworld model) 

5) sort out back junk/utililty room and create a shabby chic walk in space.

Ok, that is  just the immediate to do list, just wondering how long it will take us to organise and pay for , hmmmm,

menu plan w/c 22/3/08

Boy, it’s cold here, we had snow over night accompanied by the most horrendous gale. It kept us awake most of the night! brrrr!!!!

There is more wind’s and snow forecast for the North East UK tonight, the forecaster are predicting 5 inches of snow by Easter Sunday! I don’t mind the snow if I am not at work. Me, hubby and ds2 have been and stocked up with coal, so we are going to have a big fire tonight and snuggle up on sofa with our lab!!

I have just finished next weeks menu plan and Mr. T has just delivered the groceries, so I am feeling organised and relaxed!!

Saturday: Home made lasagna, jackets and salad 

Smoked salmon pate and garlic pitta breads whilst watching sat night tv 

Easter Sunday:  Breakie: egg macmuffins with mushrooms and coffee in bed.

Easter Sunday Lunch: Free range chicken,  hm yorkies, mash, roasties, mixed veg and sprouts

Snacky tea: cheese and ham toasties with salad

Bank Holiday Easter Monday: green Thai curry and brown rice

Tuesday: Home made meatballs with spaghetti

Wednesday: Fish fingers, mash and beans

Thursday: actifry wedges, egg and beans

Friday: salmon , roasties and veg 

Good Friday–Fish and Chips!

It’s Good Friday and we are having Fish and Chips for Tea. I know they sound very unhealthy but I have recently purchased one of these:

Its a Tefal actify, we bought it last week and it’s amazing. It produces great chips and you have to use a tablespoon of Olive oil to cook them!!!

A normal portion of chips would be 147 calories cooked in the actifry and only 3g of fat, so better than oven chips!!

So tonight we are going to have a healthy fish and chip supper!!!

The weather is really awfull here,  the weather man says that snow is on its way! We only have one bag of coal left, so I think I am going to have pop out and get some more.

We are all off work for 4 days now, until Tuesday, so I plan to do lots of blogging!!

Hope everyone is well

  

Kitchen facelift! Thank you Markie Mark!

I have been home from work since 2.30 this afternoon and I have had to bring the laptop upstairs on top of the bed! The reason being is that Markie Mark is fitting a new worktop in the kitchen for us. Our kitchen is quite old and it just consists of pine cupboards and an old fashioned pantry. The old work top was a cheap one and it has been on for the past 10 years! It scratched and looks quite scruffy, so we have bought a new one, its a bit like this one 

I am hoping that it will give my tired kitchen a face lift and inspire me to do some more cooking and baking!!! well a girl can dream can’t she!! :)  

Anyway, it is not quite finished but thank you markie mark, you are a star xxxx

Menu plan w/c 15th March.

 

Gosh, I haven’t been onto my pantry for ages!  I have been working very hard at work and don’t seem to have time for my blogging!!! argghhh! So roll on Easter,I will be off for four whole days!   Yay!

Hope everyone is ok?? I have just completed my menu plan for this week, I have only completed it up till Good Friday!

Sat:—- Green thai curry, brown rice with mini nans!

Sun:—–Nigella’s blueberry pankcakes

Lunch—curried parsnip soup

Tea—southern fried chicken, sweetcorn, rice and peri peri sauce

Monday:—slow cook braising steak, mash and carrotts

Tuesday:—-wholewheat pasta, mince in garlic and tomatoe sauce with jackets/ salad

Wedneday:——cumberland sausages, oven baked with roasties and beans

Thursday:—sweet n sour chicken with brown rice!

Have a good week everyone! 

Mothering Sunday

 

Here in the UK, it’s  Mothering_Sunday. My Mum was quite religious, a member of the  New_Apostolic_Church, so I always sent her a card and flowers. She died 12 years ago last Thursday, I have placed some sunny daffodils on my Kitchen table next to her photo. 

I was woken by oh who asked me what I wanted for breakfast?

He then served me a great breakfast in bed of organic scrambled eggs and bacon on wholemeal toast, then I had a long soak in a bubble bath and ds2 gave me a bottle of rose wine , a lovely card and the Sunday morning papers!!!

So far I have had a lovely day, I have been really lazy just laying around reading the papers!! aahhhh!  I think I want all my Sunday’s to be like this!!!